Kecemasan masa depan dan sikap mahasiswa terhadap jurusan akademik

Abstract

It is often found that students feel they are in the wrong major which leads to feeling confused about choosing theirfuture career. As a result, students think they cannot choose a career that suits their major and end up feeling anxiousabout their future. This study aims to determine the relationship between future anxiety and student attitudes towardsacademic majors. This correlational quantitative research involved 150 samples based on purposive sampling withcharacteristics as active students in university located in East Java, female or male aged 18-25 years. The instrumentsused were Future Anxiety Scale for future anxiety variables and Attitude toward Specialization Scale for attitude towardacademic majors. Based on the Pearson correlation product moment test showed that there was a positive relationshipbetween future anxiety and student attitudes towards academic majors (r = 0,326, p < 0.001) with contribution of 10.6%.The higher the level of future anxiety of students, the more positive student’s attitude towards their academic majors.Implications that refer to the results of this research for students who are feeling anxious about the future so they canrespond to their academic majors positively.